Two separate reports coming out of China on Friday point towards Apple’s negotiations with China Mobile are coming to an end.

“Apple is no longer insisting on a revenue-sharing policy, so the biggest hurdle for China Mobile to bring in the iPhone has been cleared, but there are practical issues still to be resolved,” said China Mobile spokeswoman Rainie Lei. As reported by Reuters.

“We’ve broken through the biggest obstacle,” Gao Songge, deputy director of China Mobile’s general department, told Agence-France Presse. “And we are negotiating at the working level.”

Neither spokesperson would reveal a timetable for the iPhone release in China which had 540 million mobile users at the end of November 2007.